Chapter 31 Favorability "I just wanted to say that you are very special to me."
Based on this concern, Yu Lingling severely tortured her on Monday. Although Cheng Sijie insisted that she was not pursuing Jiang Hui, Yu Lingling concluded unequivocally: "You're finished. He will definitely pursue you in the future."
Yu Lingling said earnestly, "But you must never do anything excessive in the heat of the moment."
As Cheng Sijie's childhood friend, she knew Cheng Sijie's temperament; he was serious and earnest, especially when it came to relationships. They had a tacit understanding that unless they were really attracted to each other, they wouldn't easily get in touch.
Cheng Sijie scoffed, "What? Don't worry, I know my own worth. I won't date early."
but……
Cheng Sijie nudged Yu Lingling, "So what's going on between you and Gu Mo?"
She thought about it and found the name Gu Mo to be quite interesting—"Gu Mo" (meaning "to guess" or "to estimate").
Yu Lingling understood immediately and said, "Don't worry, we just communicate more often, like asking each other questions or something."
Cheng Sijie said, "Come on, if you two didn't have feelings for each other, would you have had so much contact? Nobody's a fool, okay?"
Yu Lingling hit the nail on the head: "Aren't you the same?"
Cheng Sijie: "..."
She was a little depressed.
However, this curiosity and attraction are inherently difficult to control. She can ensure that she doesn't cross the line and doesn't do anything excessive that would affect her future, such as having intimate contact with a boy before she turns eighteen, but she really can't control this delicate feeling.
Didn't the Chinese textbook already say that...?
The ospreys cry "guan guan" on the river islet; a fair maiden is the object of a gentleman's affections.
If this kind of feeling were abnormal, one wouldn't study this kind of literary work at this stage. But if this kind of feeling weren't dangerous, one wouldn't be so insistent on placing the line from "The Ballad of the Peasant Woman"—"A man's infatuation can be explained, but a woman's infatuation cannot"—at the end.
This is enough to demonstrate certain boundaries and principles.
Cheng Sijie became serious and nodded.
Yu Lingling said, "Although I don't think I'll be fooled, I feel this kind of emotion is really overwhelming, and I'm consciously trying to control it."
The two have been childhood friends for over ten years, and Yu Lingling knows her very well. Cheng Sijie's aesthetic sense is simple and singular. From childhood to adulthood, she has a special fondness for the neurotic villains in anime. In addition, with Jiang Hui's buff stacked up, she has a typical aloof and handsome mixed-race face. Although Cheng Sijie is good-looking, she does not diminish her beauty at all. She is a serious face-obsessed person.
Being able to be friends, have more communication, and want to get closer is itself a manifestation of goodwill.
This is beyond doubt.
Setting aside the initial wariness, the deliberate approach, the slowly emerging curiosity, and the ever-growing distance...
It wasn't until the summer after his second year of high school, the summer after his eighteenth birthday, that Cheng Sijie saw the band video Jiang Hui sent him, and belatedly realized—
Self and [h]
Cheng Sijie and Jiang Hui
This is probably a very bad situation.
Jolin Tsai's "My Dear, Something's Wrong" echoed in her mind, setting off alarm bells for Cheng Sijie.
She also felt uneasy. It was one thing to see him at school every day, but to run into him in private or at her grandmother's house with his guitar was simply irresistible.
Finally, one day, Cheng Sijie unconsciously wrote "jh" while doing a math problem. She was shocked and thought: I'm in trouble.
She broke out in a cold sweat instantly. On one side was that handsome young face, and on the other side was a strange three-dimensional geometric pattern. The world spun around her. Cheng Sijie scratched her head, sighed, and banished the person from her mind.
For some reason, she sent Jiang Hui a WeChat message.
[One-liter bottle of orange juice]: I need to stay away from you.
[h]:?
[One-liter bottle of orange juice]: If this continues, it will really lead to the country being ruined by beauty.
[h]: Are you saying I am beautiful, Your Majesty?
[One-liter bottle of orange juice]: ...Yes.
Cheng Sijie only realized how funny it was after typing "yes," but fortunately, Jiang Hui readily accepted the label of "femme fatale." Even though Cheng Sijie consciously tried to avoid Jiang Hui during her senior year of high school, Jiang Hui was very cooperative.
Jiang Hui was also very busy. When the senior year of high school started, Jiang Hui always asked for leave from school. He didn't come back until a month after the summer vacation started. He said he was going to do an internship and participate in some quantitative trading model optimization.
Cheng Sijie couldn't understand what he was saying, and after searching around, she still couldn't figure out what the kid was up to.
He won numerous awards in high school, notably an IMO gold medal and a BPHO gold medal. Cheng Sijie tried searching for these prestigious competitions, but the results were dizzying. She clutched her forehead in frustration, thinking that the difference between people was truly greater than the difference between people and dogs. This crazy mixed-race Russian kid actually had a very high IQ; it was infuriating!
As a result, Jiang Hui's special abilities kicked in that very day, and he sent a message to Cheng Sijie on WeChat:
[h]: Why didn't you message me today?
[h]: Orange Anchor, you're not jealous of my intelligence because you couldn't do the test today, are you trying to freeze me to death with the silent treatment to vent your anger?
[h]: By the way, what should we have for dinner?
[One-liter pack of oranges]: ...I'm having fried rice for dinner. My parents went to a teaching competition, and I ordered takeout from a restaurant to make myself some fried rice as my main dish.
[h]: You're pretty amazing.
[One-liter pack of oranges]: What specific aspect does this refer to?
[h]: To openly admit one's jealousy is truly a heart of gold.
[One-liter bottle of oranges]: Thank you. Remember to eat dinner properly and be careful not to choke. Oh, and don't bother the chef to chop the vegetables; your knife's mouth is enough. :)
[h]: Okay.
In fact, their conversations always revolved around Cheng Sijie's life. Jiang Hui did not show how excellent he was as a "subject," but rather instrumentalized some of his strengths, trying his best to show Cheng Sijie how "useful" he was.
This relationship provided her with more nourishment than pressure. Jiang Hui transformed this excellence into a handy tool in her life, leading her to think about new things.
This model seems unhealthy. Compared to the so-called pure love sincerity, Jiang Hui doesn't seem satisfied and wants to add some perverse, self-serving reasons to get closer to him.
Cheng Sijie often stroked his chin and wondered: Is this guy a masochist?
Logically, they shouldn't see each other often in their senior year of high school. But to her surprise, not long after, on the bus to her grandmother's house, Jiang Hui, wearing headphones, glanced over casually. Cheng Sijie's heart skipped a beat. She got off the bus and asked him, "What are you doing here every now and then?"
Jiang Hui asked, "Are you coming to Grandma's house?"
Cheng Sijie said, "Yes."
Jiang Hui said, "When your mother called you last night, she told you about the recent robberies. You still dared to go out alone. You could have just called your grandma and said she wouldn't be coming this week."
Cheng Sijie was shocked: "How did you know my mom told me on the phone?"
Jiang Hui said, "Because I have special abilities."
Cheng Sijie remembered what he had said before, and for a moment she actually doubted whether this kid had special abilities: "...It's fake, right? Didn't you say you would come to the mountains in the suburbs to collect folk songs?"
Jiang Hui smiled and said, "It depends on how you think about it."
Although the world is full of wonders, the sight of a living person with special abilities right in front of her was still quite shocking, Cheng Sijie thought to herself.
Just then, the phone rang. She glanced at it and saw that it was He Hongmei calling. Coincidentally, Jiang Hui's phone also rang at the same time. Cheng Sijie answered the phone, while Jiang Hui seemed to have hung up the call and put on his own earphones.
When Cheng Sijie called, she learned that her grandmother had gone to the hospital and wasn't home. She said "Oh" in frustration, thinking to herself that she hadn't eaten yet and wondered where she was going.
Jiang Hui suddenly spoke up: "What are you spacing out for? Are you still going to your grandma's house? Do you want to treat me to dinner?"
Cheng Sijie said, "Huh?"
Cheng Sijie didn't know how she had suddenly ended up sitting in a small shop on the street with Jiang Hui. A subtle thought arose in Cheng Sijie's mind:
Did he come here specifically to follow me?
This person is really strange.
The small shops on the street weren't very hygienic, so Jiang Hui carefully rinsed the tableware for her. Seeing that she was eating but not herself, Cheng Sijie asked, "Do you think this place is unhygienic?"
Jiang Hui said, "Yes."
Cheng Sijie said, "With such good qualifications, why did you come to our municipal key school? Why not go to a provincial key school or study abroad?"
Jiang Hui said, "My family won't allow it."
Cheng Sijie imagined a whole bunch of dramatic scenes from wealthy families, which amused herself. "What, you're not their biological son, are you? You fake young master?"
Jiang Hui said, "They are worried about me because I have a mental illness."
Cheng Sijie choked up.
Jiang Hui told her a poignant and beautiful story about a wealthy family, reminiscent of the classic Chinese novel "Thunderstorm." Cheng Sijie listened in a daze, the melodramatic nature of the story making her alarm bells ring, "Should I not be listening to this?" yet she found herself listening to the whole thing without realizing it.
After finishing her speech, Jiang Hui said in a sighing tone, "Cheng Sijie, thank you. I've never talked to anyone about these things before. You really helped me resolve my inner conflict."
Cheng Sijie wanted to say, "It's okay, Jiang Pinru, you deserve it. You're so strong."
But then I thought about it again and was speechless.
She said, "What did I do to open your heart? You're a strange person."
Jiang Hui said, "You don't understand."
Cheng Sijie said, "I don't understand. Not only do I not understand, but I also think you're really not mentally sound. Do you think I'm an idiot for copying the plot of 'Thunderstorm' so verbatim? Even though it's a text in an elective textbook, I don't need to have read it, do I?"
Jiang Hui looked at her quietly, "Why did you expose me? I just wanted to say that you are very special to me."
Very special...
special……
Don't……
She fled in a panic, furious at these vulgar acts: What? Do they think she's stupid? Save these sob stories and sympathy tricks for someone else.
Doesn't she know that when a girl starts to believe that her zodiac sign is compatible with another guy, and that the other guy treats her differently, that's when bad luck begins!
This is purely a trick to deceive people and flirt with girls.
Although she deliberately avoided Jiang Hui, they were in the same department, and she would still often hear about him—this was inevitable; in their senior year of high school, top students with exceptional grades always easily became the subject of discussion. Especially since he not only had excellent grades but also came from a very privileged family.
Yu Lingling said, "You said you don't like him, but I see you start daydreaming as soon as the teacher talks about him."
Cheng Sijie said, "...Really? Please, when you hear about a handsome guy's deeds, it's hard not to get distracted and think about his face, okay?"
Yu Lingling teased Cheng Sijie, "But I remember saying before that handsome men are rare and I love to appreciate them. You insisted that you were special because you saw through the boring soul beneath the handsome men's appearances, and you even said that Cheng Jiayu used to steal the cabbage that your grandma fed to the ducks."
Cheng Sijie said, "You remember these things quite clearly."
She rolled her eyes and secretly pinched Yu Lingling.
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